Over the last few years, the New Atheism has argued that faith is inherently irrational, and that religion should not be tolerated, but rather “countered, criticized and exposed by rational argument wherever its influence arises.” Authors Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris, among others, have in particular been evangelists of this “New Atheism.”
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In this lecture, philosopher Keith Ward explains how quantum theory undermines traditional physics and the out-dated strict materialism it spawned. This is the strict, rigid materialism forced down our throats by the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins.
Ward claims that philosophical principles uncovered by quantum theory such as the effect of observation on subatomic particles, probability [...]
Who Made God? Searching for a Theory of Everything
By: Edgar Andrews
Evangelical Press / 2009 / Hardcover
Who Made God?
Professor Edgar H. Andrews is Emeritus Professor of Materials at the University of London and an international expert on the science of large molecules. He is the founder of the Department of Materials at Queen Mary College, University [...]
[It is my] loving duty to seek the truth in all things, in so far as God has granted that to human reason.
“The two great turning points of the Reformation age, the Lutheran and the Copernican, seem to have brought mankind nothing but humiliation,” wrote historian Heiko Oberman. “First man is robbed of his power [...]
Karl Giberson, director of Gordon College’s Forum on Faith and Science, and Vice-President of The Biologos Foundation, suggests the best ways the intelligent design movement can gain academic credibility.
Leaders of the intelligent design (ID) movement—William Dembski, Stephen C. Meyer, Michael Behe, Paul Nelson, Jonathan Wells—write mainly for popular audiences and have a negligible presence—as ID [...]
Dr Michael Drinkwater is based at the University of Queensland where his research interests include Dwarf Galaxy Formation, Star Formation in Galaxies, The Nature of Red Quasars and the International Virtual Observatory. He has worked at Laval University in Quebec, the Anglo-Australian Observatory, the University of New South Wales and the University of Melbourne.
The Centre [...]
Science is a way of knowing about the natural world. It is limited to explaining the natural world through natural causes. Science can say nothing about the supernatural. Whether God exists or not is a question about which science is neutral.
(US National Academy of Science).
Thus, the correct position for the skeptic who appeals to science [...]
Continue Reading...Written by Dr Peter May of the European Leadership Forum.
Paul Davies is a brilliant science writer. As an eminent physicist and cosmologist, he knows his subject matter with distinction. Better still, he has a real enthusiasm for explaining complex scientific issues to a lay audience. His book, The Goldilocks Enigma [1] examines the extraordinary ‘bio-friendliness’ (i.e. [...]
Almost by accident today I caught the the second half of the movie Mission To Mars. Mission to Mars is a 2000 science fiction movie directed by Brian de Palma about a rescue mission to Mars following a disaster during the first manned voyage to the planet. For those unfamiliar with the movie’s plot, see [...]
Continue Reading...Dr Harold Koenig: Spirituality, Religion and Health
Dr Koenig is founder and former director of Duke University’s Center for the Study of Religion, Spirituality and Health, and is founding Co-Director of the current Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center. The Center was founded in 2007 to promote scholarship and research on [...]